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Are Progressive “Experts” Fallible? Yes, But Don’t Tell Them That
Are Progressive “Experts” Fallible? Yes, But Don’t Tell Them That It can be argued that the world has reached the sorry state it’s in today largely because academics, politicians, “distinguished experts,” and “recognized authorities” did not have the humility to admit their own mistakes or to at least recognize the limits of their knowledge. Of […]
The Infinite Suburb Is an Academic Joke
The Infinite Suburb Is an Academic Joke “The Jetsons” (Warner Bros. publicity) The elite graduate schools of urban planning have yet another new vision of the future. Lately, they see a new-and-improved suburbia—based on self-driving electric cars, deliveries by “drones deliveries at your doorstep,” and “teardrop-shaped one-way roads” (otherwise known as cul-de-sacs)—as the coming sure […]
It Takes a Village to Maintain a Dangerous Financial System
It Takes a Village to Maintain a Dangerous Financial System Abstract: I discuss the motivations and actions (or inaction) of individuals in the financial system, governments, central banks, academia and the media that collectively contribute to the persistence of a dangerous and distorted financial system and inadequate, poorly designed regulations. Reassurances that regulators are doing […]
Majority Of U.S. College Students Now Support “Regulating” Free Speech
Majority Of U.S. College Students Now Support “Regulating” Free Speech While the public’s attention has been largely focused on the Obama administration’s crusade against the Second Amendment, a more troubling development is taking place in the fight against free speech, and the First Amendment, a war waged far from D.C., on the campuses of America’s […]
A New Kind of Frackademia? New Environmental Inspectors Offered Free Industry-Funded Classes on Fracking
A New Kind of Frackademia? New Environmental Inspectors Offered Free Industry-Funded Classes on Fracking At an industry conference in Philadelphia last month, oil and gas executives gathered to hear about a little-known public relations effort with a very precise target: newly hired state and federal environmental inspectors. At a seminar titled “Staying Ahead of Federal and […]
The GMO Puppetmasters of Academia: What the NYT Left Out
The GMO Puppetmasters of Academia: What the NYT Left Out “Reading the emails make(s) me want to throw up” tweeted the Food Babe after reading a lengthy series of them posted online by the NY Times on Sept 5th. The emails in question result from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and are posted in the side bars of a […]
Liberals and the New McCarthyism
Liberals and the New McCarthyism It’s easy enough, some sixty years after the fact, for us to cluck our tongues at the cowardice and stupidity of those who went along with McCarthyism. It’s especially easy for liberals and academics to say that had they been alive back then, they would certainly have had the courage to stand […]
“Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue” …
“Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue” … Corruption Is Destroying Basic Science Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are the two most prestigious medical journals in the world. It is therefore striking that their chief editors have both publicly written that corruption is undermining science. The editor in […]
A TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY HAS TOTALITARIAN SCIENCE
A TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY HAS TOTALITARIAN SCIENCE The government, the press, the mega-corporations, the prestigious foundations, the academic institutions, the “humanitarian” organizations say: “This is the disease. This is its name. This is what causes it. This is the drug that treats it. This is the vaccine that prevents it. “This is how accurate diagnosis is […]
AP Economics teachers’ discussion board: 3 latest topics of Emperor’s New Clothes facts
AP Economics teachers’ discussion board: 3 latest topics of Emperor’s New Clothes facts Advanced Placement Macroeconomics teachers have a discussion board for questions and topics of interest. Since 2009, I’ve participated as I can imagine to catalyze awakening among ~2,000 AP Econ teachers. Below are the latest three contributions I’ve made; the first in response to a question, […]
